If you enable the sl-other repository ZFS is also now an option to try as well.

- Chris Brown

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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Connie Sieh
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:25 PM
To: Ray Van Dolson
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Subject: Re: Large filesystem recommendation

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Ray Van Dolson wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:59:03PM -0400, John Lauro wrote:
>> What is recommended for a large file system (40TB) under SL6?
>>
>> In the past I have always had good luck with jfs.  Might not be the 
>> fastest, but very stable.  It works well with being able to repair 
>> huge filesystems in reasonable amount of RAM, and handle large 
>> directories, and large files.  Unfortunately jfs doesn't appear to be 
>> supported in 6?  (or is there a repo I can add?)
>>
>>
>> Besides for support of 40+TB filesystem, also need support of files
>>> 4TB, and directories with hundreds of thousands of files.  What do 
>>> people recommend?
>
> Echoing what others have said, sounds like XFS might be the best 
> option if you can find a repository with a quality version (EPEL 
> perhaps?)

Do you have issues with the xfs that is provided in SL 6?

-Connie Sieh

>
> Interesting on the Backblaze and ext4 thing.  While ext4 itself may 
> support this larger file system size, I'm not sure if the "default"
> ext4tools will??  Could be a risk to investigate if you go this route.
>
> Other options I can think of:
>
> - btrfs (not sure if something like EPEL provides a release with this)
> - ZFS on Linux (for the adventurous only, but I believe they have a  
> version that works well with RHEL).
>
> Personally, I'd go XFS.
>
> Ray
>